The Pocono Northeast Resource, Conservation, and Development Council is announcing the 2010 Northeastern Pennsylvania Energy and Environmental Expo. This 10 county community event that will be held at the Luzerne County Fairgrounds in Dallas, PA. The event will be held rain or sunshine on June 26 - 27, 2010. At part of this event, there will be over 30 businesses promoting alternative and renewable energy, energy conservation, and environmental stewardship. In addition to the local and regional businesses, there will be over 20 hours of training an alternative energy system, conservation, climate change, and other environmental issues. The following is a partial listing of the training programs with a listing for the presenter:
"Home Energy Conservation/Wind Energy" - Sandy Babuka, Trehab Renewable Energy-Wind
"Home Energy Performance" - Frank Malpere, Quality Building and Remodeling
"Fueling Pennsylvania – Current & Future Trends & Pennsylvania’s Contribution to Global Warming" - Joy Tetlak-Adelstein, Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture), Outreach Coordinator for Northeastern PA
"Geothermal – Ground Source Energy from the Mine Pool" - Stephen C. Daiute, PE, LEED AP, Greenman-Pederson, Inc
"Energy Audits" - National Energy Education Development Project
"Solar Home Energy " - Nora Buckman, Trehab Renewable Energy- Solar
"Native Grasses for Energy" - Scott Singer, US Dept of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS)
"Building Envelope " - Rick Czajkowski, Quad-K Energy Conservation
"Groundwater and Geology for Northeastern PA—Getting the Waters Tested " - Brian Oram, Wilkes University
"Ground Source Heating and Cooling for Your Home – Using the Earth to Save Money" - Scott Moyer, Duane Moyer Well Drilling
"Biomass Heating Opportunities- Pennsylvania Fuels for Schools & Beyond – A Community – Based Solution – Reduce School District Fuel Costs by over $ 30,000/yr." - Ryan Koch, US Dept of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS)
"Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology" - Stephen Kew-Goodale, Weatherly Institute for Robotics and Engineering
"Solar Photovoltaics" - AJ Bittner, Keystone Energy
"Geothermal Energy / Ground Source Heating and Cooling for Your Healthy Home" - Thomas E. Spall, T.E. Spall & Son – “The Comfort Doctors”
In addition, on Saturday - June 26, 2010 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm - the Sustainable Energy Fund is offering an education session titled "NO Cost and Low Cost Energy – Solutions for Citizens and Businesses".
The Expo Committee would like to thank our Event Sponsors and Sponsors. The following are the sponsors for the event:
Event Sponsor - Encana - underwriting the cost for Energy Audit workshops being done by the National Energy Education Development Project (NEED) and discount coupon for the event.
The mission of the National Energy Education Development Project is to promote an energy conscious and educated society by creating effective networks of students, educators, business, government and community leaders to design and deliver objective, multi-sided energy education programs.
Platnium Sponsors
Wilkes University is helping to sponsor, promote and provide free continuing education units and a certificate for continuing education for all of the training sessions during the event and conducting an education session related to developing or reviewing baseline water quality data for private well owners
B.F. Environmental Consultants Inc is helping to promote and sponsor this event and conducting an education session.
Gold Sponsors
Duane Moyer Well Drilling and Moyer's Plumbing Supply and Hardware is helping to sponsor, promote, and conducting an education session during the event and exhibiting.
Reilly Associates is helping to sponsor and promote and will be exhibiting at the event.
Web Design Pros is helping to sponsor and promote the event and will be giving away stainless steel sports bottles during the event.
Silver Sponsors
Shoener Environmental is helping to sponsor and promote the event and will be exhibiting at the event.
Green Field Energy Solutions is helping to sponsor and promote the event and will be exhibiting at the event and has volunteered time during the event.
Tomhicken Pure Spring Water is helping to sponsor the event and is donating product for the event.
Rick Grant and Associates is helping to plan, sponsor, and promote the event and working with local and regional media.
In addition to the sponsors, this event would not happen without the help of our planning partners and media partners: B.F. Environmental Consultants, Inc, Endless Mountains RC&D Council, Green Building Association of Central PA Luzerne, Columbia, and Wayne County Conservation Districts, PennFuture, National Energy Education Development Project, National Awakenings Magazine, Sustainable Energy Education & Development Support, Sustainable Energy Fund, Times-Shamrock Communications, Trehab Renewable Energy, Wilkes University and WNEP-TV.
To learn more about the event, please visit
http://www.pnesolutions.org
The Council is always looking for good projects, board members, and project partners. If you want to learn more about Council, please visit - http://www.pnercd.org
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Well testing offered to residents near drilling site Luzerne County, PA
This is a reprint of a news article.
Well testing offered to residents near drilling site
By Elizabeth Skrapits (Staff Writer)
Published: April 21, 2010
LEHMAN TWP. - Residents near a planned natural gas well site in Lake Township were advised Tuesday to take advantage of an opportunity to have their private wells tested.
Encana Oil & Gas USA Inc., in partnership with WhitMar Exploration Co., has selected the Salansky property on Sholtis Road in Lake Township as the site of the second of three proposed exploratory natural gas wells in Luzerne County.
State regulations require natural gas drilling companies to sample drinking water wells within 1,000 feet of their drilling sites, but Encana is testing within a 1-mile radius of its proposed drilling sites.
The companies plan to start drilling at the Lake Township site in July if they can receive the required permissions, Encana Spokeswoman Wendy Wiedenbeck said. The first site to be drilled will be the Buda property behind the Ricketts Glen Hotel in Fairmount Township, in June. Although the companies have required permits to drill at a third site, the Lansberry property in Lehman Township, Wiedenbeck said she is not sure when drilling will start there.
Encana has retained Lancaster-based RETTEW Associates Inc. as a third-party firm to do the sampling, and King-of-Prussia-based TestAmerica as its independent laboratory to do the tests.
Drilling will not start until the water testing is complete, Wiedenbeck said. The reason for the water testing is to establish a baseline, or show what is in peoples' well water before the drilling starts.
A few residents expressed concern about a similar situation like that in Dimock Township, where 14 families' wells were invaded by methane. The state Department of Environmental Protection fined Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., made the company cap three wells, and put a stop to more drilling within a 9-square-mile radius of the township for at least a year. The problem is believed to have been caused by a faulty well casing.
Encana will follow protocols so as not to repeat the mistakes of the other well operator, according to Wiedenbeck. Differences include two well casings, the first of which will go at least 50 feet below the nearest known water source.
"I don't know if there's anything I can say to erase the concern from another's mistake," Wiedenbeck said. "We will take steps so we do not impact the water."
On questioning, Wiedenbeck admitted Encana may have had an impact to a water source - a stream - while drilling in Colorado, but said state environmental authorities were called immediately and the company implemented a new protocol afterwards.
Although people seem to have a lot of concerns about the hydraulic fracturing process, Wiedenbeck said the biggest concern should be about the well bore instead of 7,000 feet underground: the well bore integrity will prevent fluids and gas from migrating.
If Encana did impact residents' water, the company would be responsible to make sure they had drinkable, usable water the same as before the incident, she said.
"I think they (Encana) danced around some of the questions, but the water testing is a good idea, at least to give us a baseline," Jeffrey Chulick, who lives near the Lake Township site, said after the meeting when asked what he thought. "I'm not sure about the natural gas drilling, though."
After the question-and-answer session with Encana, Wilkes University hydrogeologist Brian Oram gave a presentation on what's underground and in the water in the region.
Oram, who is not involved with the water sampling or acting as a consultant to Encana - "My role isn't to swing somebody either way," as he put it - did advise people to have the water sampling done.
He said in his 20 years of doing baseline water testing in Luzerne County, he found 30 percent to 50 percent of private wells were contaminated. For example, methane was discovered in wells in Tunkhannock and Columbia County even before Marcellus Shale drilling started there, Oram said.
eskrapits@citizensvoice.com, 570-821-2072
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Reposting of article - My presentation can be found at
http://www.water-research.net/powerpoint/
Thanks
Brian
Well testing offered to residents near drilling site
By Elizabeth Skrapits (Staff Writer)
Published: April 21, 2010
LEHMAN TWP. - Residents near a planned natural gas well site in Lake Township were advised Tuesday to take advantage of an opportunity to have their private wells tested.
Encana Oil & Gas USA Inc., in partnership with WhitMar Exploration Co., has selected the Salansky property on Sholtis Road in Lake Township as the site of the second of three proposed exploratory natural gas wells in Luzerne County.
State regulations require natural gas drilling companies to sample drinking water wells within 1,000 feet of their drilling sites, but Encana is testing within a 1-mile radius of its proposed drilling sites.
The companies plan to start drilling at the Lake Township site in July if they can receive the required permissions, Encana Spokeswoman Wendy Wiedenbeck said. The first site to be drilled will be the Buda property behind the Ricketts Glen Hotel in Fairmount Township, in June. Although the companies have required permits to drill at a third site, the Lansberry property in Lehman Township, Wiedenbeck said she is not sure when drilling will start there.
Encana has retained Lancaster-based RETTEW Associates Inc. as a third-party firm to do the sampling, and King-of-Prussia-based TestAmerica as its independent laboratory to do the tests.
Drilling will not start until the water testing is complete, Wiedenbeck said. The reason for the water testing is to establish a baseline, or show what is in peoples' well water before the drilling starts.
A few residents expressed concern about a similar situation like that in Dimock Township, where 14 families' wells were invaded by methane. The state Department of Environmental Protection fined Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., made the company cap three wells, and put a stop to more drilling within a 9-square-mile radius of the township for at least a year. The problem is believed to have been caused by a faulty well casing.
Encana will follow protocols so as not to repeat the mistakes of the other well operator, according to Wiedenbeck. Differences include two well casings, the first of which will go at least 50 feet below the nearest known water source.
"I don't know if there's anything I can say to erase the concern from another's mistake," Wiedenbeck said. "We will take steps so we do not impact the water."
On questioning, Wiedenbeck admitted Encana may have had an impact to a water source - a stream - while drilling in Colorado, but said state environmental authorities were called immediately and the company implemented a new protocol afterwards.
Although people seem to have a lot of concerns about the hydraulic fracturing process, Wiedenbeck said the biggest concern should be about the well bore instead of 7,000 feet underground: the well bore integrity will prevent fluids and gas from migrating.
If Encana did impact residents' water, the company would be responsible to make sure they had drinkable, usable water the same as before the incident, she said.
"I think they (Encana) danced around some of the questions, but the water testing is a good idea, at least to give us a baseline," Jeffrey Chulick, who lives near the Lake Township site, said after the meeting when asked what he thought. "I'm not sure about the natural gas drilling, though."
After the question-and-answer session with Encana, Wilkes University hydrogeologist Brian Oram gave a presentation on what's underground and in the water in the region.
Oram, who is not involved with the water sampling or acting as a consultant to Encana - "My role isn't to swing somebody either way," as he put it - did advise people to have the water sampling done.
He said in his 20 years of doing baseline water testing in Luzerne County, he found 30 percent to 50 percent of private wells were contaminated. For example, methane was discovered in wells in Tunkhannock and Columbia County even before Marcellus Shale drilling started there, Oram said.
eskrapits@citizensvoice.com, 570-821-2072
***********
Reposting of article - My presentation can be found at
http://www.water-research.net/powerpoint/
Thanks
Brian
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